BACKYARD ASTRONOMY Embracing Summer Nights
by Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer
It was this time last year that Comet Neowise graced our skies and allowed the world to gaze...
Ford vows to build more jails
Just as you thought the whole jail issue was quietly slinking away into obscurity, Doug Ford has managed to raise the heat again. In...
Serious labour shortages in local construction
With the controversy surrounding the sex ed component of the revised provincial school curriculum introduced by the Ontario Government, other aspects of the new...
Where’s the Revolution?
In a series of articles before Christmas, I discussed the Revolution that took place with the birth and life of Jesus. The effect on...
Sparrows return
This morning, as a Blue Jay greedily and hurriedly fed itself from one of my garden feeders, a group of four White Throated Sparrows...
Remembering Blake
My name is Wesley Finner. I’m a ten-year-old boy from Kemptville, Ontario. This Remembrance Day a lot of people will go to ceremonies to...
The last enemy
I am not getting older. Unfortunately, my body is, much to my annoyance. I can’t run as fast as I could when I was...
Canadian Physician Mothers for a Healthy Recovery from Covid-19
Canadian Physician Mothers across the country are asking Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet to invest in a “Healthy Recovery” from COVID-19. The Canadian...
Just when you thought it was safe..
It has been so nice to get reassurances from various provincial government officials that the proposed prison in Kemptville will be completely safe and...
SIGNS
by Peter Johnson, Upper Oxford Mills
'And the sign said, 'Long-haired, freaky people, need not apply.'(Les Emmerson)
A long time ago, shortly after the disappearance of...